The officials made a request to Guatemalan President Manuel Lisandro Barillas Bercián to invade El Salvador and depose Ezeta, alleging that he was planning an invasion of Guatemala.

[8] The nation eventually was dissolved on 29 November 1898 after Tomás Regalado lead a coup in El Salvador against Rafael Antonio Gutiérrez.

[6] In 1903, determined to create the nation by force, Salvadoran President Tomás Regalado declared war on Guatemala.

[6] In 1906, Tomás Regalado declared war on Guatemala again with the consent of then President Pedro José Escalón and both El Salvador and Mexico invaded the country.

[2] On July 14, Chiquimula's troops under Portillo and Calderón had attacked Tolo's Salvadoran positions, forcing them to concentrate at their headquarters in Ocotepeque.

On that same day, at 2 p.m., the same Guatemalan troops took the Santa Fe positions, which the Salvadorans tried to retake by attacking their adversary from the front and flanks.

On the 16th, the Guatemalans occupied the heights of Machaca, from where they reported that the Salvadorans had tried to outflank them on the roads of La Brea and Quebrada Honda, but that, having received orders to suspend their operations, they had not continued their advance on the enemy positions.